CBS Publishers, 2019. — 409 p. Water is one of the essential requirements for the mankind to sustain his alround activities like dOl1lestic, nlunicipal, agriculture, anilual husbandary, industry, transport and other nlultivarious needs. Increasing population and changing environment in the present sophisticated world demand increased needs of consumptive and non-consunlptive...
CBS Publishers, 2019. — 130 p. Geological maps and drawing sections through appropriate lines to reveal the underground structure is one ofthe important aspects of structural geology. The geological structure of any region is the foundation for further geological studies. As a first step, the beginneristaught the method ofdrawing geological section along a suitable lineto...
CBS Publishers, 2019. — 130 p. The book is written to understand the basic principles of geological maps. The rocks (beds) exposed in the crust of the earth, and their outcrop patterns are developed in a systematic manner. The several variables controlling the outcrops of rocks have been dealt with in the book. Some amount of simplification has been found essential. The more...
Воронеж: Воронежский государственный университет, 2015. — 54 с. Настоящее пособие предназначено для студентов геологической специальности, изучающих спецкурс «Месторождения редких и рассеянных металлов». Редкие и рассеянные элементы – это не только мало распространенные в земной коре, но, прежде всего, новые для промышленности металлы, использование которых насчитывает не более...
М.: Научный мир, 1998. — 343 с. В книге обобщена информация о результатах исследований современных и древних металлоносных осадков в океанах и Красном море. Показаны основные черты состава металлоносных осадков и закономерности пространственного распределения содержаний и скоростей накопления слагающих их компонентов. Установлены причины, обуславливающие различные типы...
Hoboken: Wiley, 2024. — 391 p. An up-to-date edition of the indispensable guide to analysing paleontological data Paleontology has developed in recent decades into an increasingly data-driven discipline, which brings to bear a huge variety of statistical tools. Applying statistical methods to paleontological data requires a discipline-specific understanding of which methods and...
Екатеринбург: УрО РАН, 2011. — 167 с. В монографии рассмотрены формирование структур минеральных агрегатов, зональность и секториальность кристаллов, эпитаксия и синтаксия минералов, распад твёрдых растворов. Приведены примеры онтогенеза метасоматитов и эндогенных рудных месторождений. Обсуждается значение генезиса минералов в технологии минерального сырья. Книга представляет...
Open Book Publishers, 2024. — 280 p. Heavy Metal: Earth's Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies brings together world-leading experts from across the globe to reimagine the future of mineral exploration and mining in a post-fossil fuel world. Minerals and metals - for batteries, circuit boards, wiring and other components - are essential to a digital, carbon-neutral...
Springer, 2023. — 483 p. This open access book documents the use of radiogenic and stable isotopes to study mineral deposits from a global to the deposit scale. It includes data-sets that have been directly used in mineral exploration. Isotopic data have been key to developing models for the origin of many mineral deposit types. The book has four sections: (1) the use of...
Springer, 2021. — 99 p. This open access book includes instruction of national mineral database 2020 and atlas of national mineral deposits distribution derived from national mineral database 2020. National mineral database 2020 is based on data from National Geological Archives China(NGAC). Moreover, it introduces the construction method and updates maintenance mechanism of...
Springer, 2023. — 213 p. This work, written in an understandable way for the interested layperson, introduces into the unknown world of the CO 2 gas volcanoes, the so-called mofettes. A little explored world that lets animals die in the middle of Europe, changes the flora, influences soils and the atmosphere and can provide clues for upcoming volcanic eruptions. With the help...
Springer, 2024. — 234 p. This graduate-level textbook deals with different aspects of plane mirrors and mirror-related symmetries. It provides us with some new ways of understanding symmetries in crystals and the mirror combination schemes. The inclusion of topics such as the Wigner–Seitz unit cell, reciprocal lattice, Brillouin zones, diffraction of crystals, etc., based on...
Waveland Press, Inc., 2023. — 314 p. Historical geology courses require clear, practical examinations of pertinent concepts and procedures. The authors of Interpreting Earth History provide full-color, stand-alone exercises that identify and augment the critical features that make the identification of geologic formations possible. The Ninth Edition continues a legacy of...
American Geophysical Union, 2022. — 285 p. Understanding gemstones in a geological context Gemstones are colorful treasures of the Earth that have captivated humans for thousands of years. The physical and chemical characteristics of each type of gem provide insights into the geological processes that created them. Geology and Mineralogy of Gemstones is a textbook aimed at...
DK, 2021. — 162 p. Who's ready for a round-the-world trip of epic dinosaur proportions? Pack your bags and let's go! On this adventure, you'll travel back in time to see more than 40 dinosaurs come to life! The geography book for kids explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map. A unique children's atlas that brings weird and wonderful prehistoric...
Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2017. — 290 p. The volcanoes of Europe offer dramatic landscapes, intriguing geological and geographical characteristics, and compelling histories of their interaction with those who have chosen to live on and near them. This new colour illustrated edition presents a wealth of up-to-date material in a comprehensive and thoroughly researched...
Красноярск: ИПК СФУ, 2008. — 380 с. В 1908 году в 6.30 утра в Тунгусской тайге произошло событие планетарного масштаба, известное как "падение Тунгусского метеорита", и его местные следы сохранились до наших дней. Несмотря на все усилия нескольких поколений ученых разных специальностей во многих странах, до сих пор нет полного и всестороннего объяснения этого феномена. В...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. — 368 p. Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic sizes? A dedicated group of researchers in Germany in disciplines ranging from engineering and materials science to animal...
London: Electric Book Company, 2000. — 650 p. BETWEEN the years 1838 and 1865 I published six editions of the ‘Elements of Geology’, beginning with a small duodecimo volume, which increased with each successive edition, as new facts accumulated, until in 1865 it had become a large and somewhat expensive work. When a seventh edition was called for, I was strongly urged by my...
Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022. — 248 p. Preface Summary of Mineral Composition Distribution of Opaque Minerals in stony Meteorites The minerals and textures Summary Zusammenfassung Card File Literature Explanations and Abbreviations of the list of meteorites Meteorite list
М.: Мир, 1975. — 370 с. В руководстве, написанном крупными специалистами Женевского и Кембриджского университетов, рассмотрены все основные вопросы изучения рудных минералов под микроскопом, но основное внимание уделено количественным методам диагностики — измерению отражения и твердости минерального вещества. Большая часть книги посвящена теории оптики отраженного света — в...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2023. — 137 p. To prevent the collapse of dangerous rock masses on steep rocky reservoir banks which can cause casualties and property loss, it is essential to design and conduct practical experiments to quantify the evolution processes of the reservoir banks and control such dangerous rock masses.
American Geophysical Union, 2023. — 347 p. A synthesis of current knowledge on collisional and convergent plate boundaries worldwide Major mountain belts on Earth, such as the Alps, Himalayas, and Appalachians, have been built by compressional tectonic processes during continent-continent and arc-continent collisions.
Cham: Springer, 2023. — 287 p. This book presents a guide of optical mineralogy for beginners and microscopists who need to brush up their knowledge. It allows the fast identification of common rock-forming minerals in a thin section using a polarized light microscope and transmitted plane and cross polarized light. The book summarizes essential principles of optical mineralogy...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 288 p. An internationally recognized scientist shows that Earth’s separate continents, once together in Pangea, are again on a collision course. You’ve heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart some 175 million years ago to give us our current continents, but what about its predecessors, Rodinia or Columbia? These...
Routledge, 2020. — 271 p. This book, first published in 1983, incorporates a wealth of reference material – keys, nomograms, tables, charts – likely to be needed in the field for actual fieldwork. The widest possible coverage of material is provided in anticipation of problems that individual specialists will encounter on the periphery of their main areas of interest. List of...
CSIRO Publishing, 2023. — 122 p. Have you ever wondered about those rocks under your feet? How old they might be? How they got their colour and texture? Could they contain some unknown mineral or fossil treasure? Rocks, Fossils and Formations: Discoveries Through Time is an introduction to geoscience, which uses clues in rocks and the landscape to tell the story of the Earth....
Dordrecht: Springer, 2023. — 438 p. This book starts with an introduction to quantitative texture analysis (QTA), which adopts conventions (active rotations, definition of Euler angles, Wigner D-functions) that conform to those of the present-day mathematics and physics literature. Basic concepts (e.g., orientation; orientation distribution function (ODF), orientation density...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. — 327 p. An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa. Once Africa was referred to as the ''Lost World of the dinosaur era,'' so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were destroyed during the Second World War. Fortunately, in the...
Cham: Springer, 2022. — 849 p. This book presents a detailed examination of the current state of knowledge in the field of paleoneurology in the main amniote groups (reptiles, birds and mammals), and advances resulting from new non-invasive technologies. The study of fossil endocasts is an area of considerable current interest, and has long been central to our understanding of...
Казань: Казанский университет, 2012. — 128 с. Учебное пособие по курсу уровня знаний будущих гидрогеологов. Поможет студентам овладеть новыми навыками и знаниями в области изучения и практического использования лечебных, промышленных и термальных вод. Задачи курса состоят в формировании у студентов основных понятий, критериев и принципов оценки минеральных вод, определения...
Springer, 2022. — 501 p. This world atlas presents a comprehensive overview of the gas-hydrate systems of our planet with contributions from esteemed international researchers from academia, governmental institutions and hydrocarbon industries. The book illustrates, describes and discusses gas hydrate systems, their geophysical evidence and their future prospects for climate...
М.: Сам Полиграфист, 2012. — 264 с. Почти 25 лет я старался быть активным спелеологом, то есть практически ежегодно проводил полевые исследования и научные эксперименты в пещерах Крыма, Кавказа, Урала и Средней Азии, участвовал в совещаниях и семинарах по спелеологии и карсту, занимался пещерной фотографией и опубликовал более 30 статей о подземных геофизических исследованиях в...
М.: Недра, 1970. — 74 с. Александр Петрович Смолин (1887–1978) — крупный специалист в области геологии месторождений золота и редких металлов, организатор геологоразведочной службы в золотой промышленности Урала, кандидат геолого-минералогических наук. С 1920 года А.П. Смолин принимал участие в исследованиях на крупнейших золотых рудниках Сибири и именно с этого времени начал...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. — 312 p. The Meaning Of Fossils is an absorbing history of changing views of what fossils are and how they contribute to an understanding of the history of the earth. “It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person’s view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick’s book should do for many paleontologists’ view of the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 323 p. This valuable collection of essays presents and evaluates techniques of body-mass estimation and reviews current and potential applications of body-size estimates in paleobiology. Papers discuss explicitly the errors and biases of various regression techniques and predictor variables, and the identification of functionally...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 416 p. Trilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earliest forms of complex animal life, these hard-shelled marine invertebrates inhabited the primal seas of the Paleozoic Era. Their march through evolutionary time began in the Lower Cambrian, some 521 million years ago, and lasted until their...
М.: Недра, 1968. — 448 с. В книге изложены сущность и содержание общей и исторической геологии, их научное и практическое значение, методы изучения геологических явлений. Рассмотрены основы геологического исчисления времени, элементы минералогии, петрографии, палеонтологии, стратиграфии и тектоники. Общая геология. Сведения о минералах. Сведения о горных породах. Формы...
Иркутск: Изд-во ИГУ, 1991. — 248 с. Учебное пособие является справочником - определителем главнейших минералов, в котором их основные диагностические признаки сведены в таблицы, выполненные отдельно для каждой группы. особенно выделены характерные диагностические различия. Использование принципа набора цифровых сочетаний позволяет по таблице экспрессной диагностики быстро...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. — 185 p. The most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the marvelous flying reptiles that dominated the skies of the Mesozoic for 160 million years. Once seen by some as evolutionary dead-enders, pterosaurs were vigorous winged reptiles capable of thriving in an array of habitats and climates, including polar winters....
3rd edition. — Krause Publications, 2016. — 909 p. A rockhound's must-have resource! Easy to use and lavishly illustrated, this new and completely revised and expanded edition of Collecting Rocks, Gems, and Minerals is designed with beginners in mind, yet filled with valuable technical information for seasoned collectors. This guide takes you from being simply someone who...
М.: Недра, 1988. — 382 с. — ISBN 5-247-00108-7. Рассмотрены основные этапы развития структуры земной коры на протяжении докембрия, начиная с образования Земли и наиболее ранней, догеологической стадии ее эволюции. Дан подробный обзор фактического материала по континентам. Проанализированы представления о тектоническом режиме и стиле тектонических деформаций в течение...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. — 258 p. An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to today Humans have been stumbling upon the petrified remains of ancient animals since prehistoric times, leading to tales of giant dogs, deadly dragons, tree gods, sea serpents, and all manner of strange and marvelous creatures. In this richly...
СПб.: В тип. Демакова, 1870. — 170 с. Определитель минералов, рассчитанный на учащихся и любителей, и не требующий использования сложных методов химии и кристаллографии.
СПб: Ф.А. Битепаж, 1871. — 116 с. Двадцать четыре хромолитографированных таблицы с объяснительным текстом на 58 страниц. В книге не только приведены физические характеристики камней, но и их месторождения, а для драгоценных — и стоимость за карат.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 672 p. This introduction to mineralogy for undergraduate and graduate students in geology and materials science has been designed for a semester course. Covering all aspects of mineralogy in an integrated way, it links mineral properties with broader geological processes, and conveys their economic importance throughout the text....
М.: Фитон XXI, 2018. — 142 с. Пермский период - время господства терапсид, в том числе звероящеров, которые являются предками млекопитающих, а значит и нас с вами! Это единственный геологический период, выделенный в России, в Пермской губернии. Хотя динозавры в нашей стране популярны, их в России найдено мало, а вот про пермскую жизнь мало кто знает подробно, хотя пермских...
Illustrator: Bob Nicholls. — New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. — 330 p. Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures — how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or elude their...
М.; Л.: ОНТИ, 1933. — 106 с. Пособие по минералогии, носящее скорее научно-популярный, чем полноценный учебный характер, но ориентированное на поиски минералов, значимых для промышленности. Имеет не только историческое значение.
М.: ОНТИ, 1934. — 140 с. В 1934 г. профессор Д. И. Иловайский издал учебник «Руководство по палеозоологии беспозвоночных», составленный из курсов его лекций. Для каждого крупного таксона беспозвоночных Д. И. Иловайский привел сведения по биологии современных его представителей, чтобы подчеркнуть связь между ископаемыми и современными организмами и отметить «неполноту...